Secrets to the success of Australian media’s hit-maker Marc Fennell
Everything Marc Fennell touches seems to turn to gold, whether it’s an oddball podcast about the race to breed the world’s hottest chili, an expose of all the stuff the British stole during colonisation, or a gripping and deeply personal look at troubled megachurch Hillsong. This is how the so-called ‘accidental journalist’ does it.
It begins with a spark inside his brain that feels a little like an electric shock.
It could be an off-the-cuff remark. It might be a slither of an anecdote or a whiff of something interesting. The small beginnings of an idea mentioned in passing that the ordinary observer might overlook.
But in an instant, award-winning journalist and broadcaster Marc Fennell latches on to that little glimmer of a story and his mind begins racing. There’s no stopping it.
